What Kind of Dream Situations Give You DILDs Most?

Reading a few people's accounts of how they became lucid I noticed they became lucid most during active, wild, or nightmarish dreams. The contrary is true for me, I often become lucid in calm, pleasant, realistic settings where I have the luxury of being able to analyze or think about the world around me and notice it's a dream. Given I've only had a handful of LDs, have any of you guys noticed certain dream environments create more DILDs than others? If you have experienced a trend like the ones I have described do you think it could be possible to incubate dream environments to increase your possibilities of becoming lucid?

It is true that crazy or nightmarish dreams help create lucidity. The dream scenario can be so horrifying or bizarre that you question reality itself, making you come to the conclusion that you are in a dream. You probably get lucid in calm dreams because in waking reality you probably practice your awareness/reality checks during your calm, down time. And yes, it is very possible to incubate a dream to increase lucidity. It is called the VILD(Visually Incubated Lucid Dream) technique. :)

If nightmarish dreams make you lucid that stinks for me because I don't have nightmares or scary dreams often, which might link to my last thread you replied to where I said my dreams don't ever seem to feel very vivid.

Relying on nightmares to lucid dreams is both unreliable and unhealthy. The best way to induce lucid dreams is through using techniques with consistency. You can also improve your dream racall to remember more dreams by keeping a dream journal....and when you wake up, don't move and try to remember everything you can about your last dream. :)

Stressful situations. Whenever I am stressed in real life, I try to take a few deep breaths to calm down and center myself. This carries over into my dreams, and causes me to become lucid.

I usually become lucid when dreaming about pretty normal things... The really strange ones never trigger me to question reality. :roll:

I've only had 4 DILDs that I can remember, I attained lucidity differently in each one so I can't really tell if there's any consistencies.

My very first lucid dream was induced by vibrations, I guess. I was having a regular dream and it tore apart like a film reel and suddenly I was in a room with my arms stretched out in front of me and both hands open, I wasn't lucid at this point but then I felt a HUGE vibration and the room shook and I was completely aware.

The next DILD occured because I went to bed really stoned and as soon as I entered a dream, I realized I was high as hell and that wasn't normal in a dream so I guess it shocked my awareness awake.

The third was a really long, especially nonsensical dream where I was hell bent on finding a container (a tote) to put something slimy/sticky in and I became so obsessed with it that I started trying to yell dream commands because I'd ran out of options, funny thing is I wasn't lucid at this point but trying to yell I found I could hardly even talk, my voice came out strained and forced and this brought me to lucidity. (I think in the dream I was trying to speak in waking life but was probably in SP and it crossed into the dream)

The last and most recent, I was just there and lucid, it was pretty weird. I did set a one time alarm trying it out after 3hrs of sleep but it didn't wake me up, I think it might have prodded my brain just enough to make me lucid without waking me up entirely.

I have noticed lately I've been trying to talk in my dreams and getting the strained voice result, though, It did not make me lucid the last time. Every time it happens now I correct it subconsciously essentially cutting off an opportunistic way to become lucid. :/

Usually after a WBTB if I have a dream with either my Parents in it, or if I find myself in the kitchen or living room of my house and I notice something odd. :)

Well I usually notice something strange about the dream and then i look at my hands and I feel a very strange sensation all over my body like, like I am transforming into something, then I exit the dream and after 1 sec I enter another dream - Fully Aware and in control

I never have "fantasyfied elements" in my dreams. They're realistic to my every day life. Whether skating or watching a movie with a friend, I only question I am dreaming when I am feeling euphoric. From an achievement, gift, kiss etc. I go "this can't be my life" aha.

When I find myself feeling lost in a strange neighborhood. For some reason this scenario tends to bring on lucidity.

Being in school in my dreams tends to cause me to become lucid because I've been out of school for years.
I find myself in dream school a lot. O.o

I usually get lucid, when I dream of situations that could occurr in my daily life.. probably because that are the situations where I do most of my RC's. But this week it happened twice, that something strange happened or somebody was telling my sth, that I couldn't believe and after it I was talking to another person and I was like "no, that can't be true, I must be dreaming.. " and.. I got lucid.